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OVERVIEW OF DATA SCIENCE
Pathway to becoming a Data Scientist
Prof. S. O. Akindele
DEFINITION OF DATA SCIENCE
Data Science is the science which uses computer science,
statistics and machine learning, visualization and human-
computer interactions to collect, clean, integrate, analyze,
visualize, and interact with data to create data products.
From the definition, we can see that Data Science is
• Multidisciplinary
• Data-driven
• Computerized
Based on notes from CS194 at UC Berkeley by Michael Franklin, John Canny, and Jeff Hammerbacher
MULTIDISCIPLINARY NATURE OF DATA SCIENCE
Machine Learning
INFORMATION Artificial Intelligence STATISTICS
TECHNOLOGY
DATA
SCIENCE
Software Research
Development
SPECIFIC DOMAIN OR
DISCIPLINE
Data Science is a bit
of many things
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